Law and social science scholars have long elucidated ways of governing built around state
governance of populations and subjects. Yet many are now grappling with the growing …

Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted,
governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and …

According to Clifford Geertz, the purpose of anthropology is not to explain culture but to
explicate it. That should cause us to rethink our relationship with machine learning. It is, we …

Facebook data breaches and election influencing of Cambridge Analytica along with claims
about alternative facts make it a challenging time to deliver a lecture about a research …

What makes one dataset powerful for civic advocacy, and another fall flat? Drawing from a
citizen science project on environmental health, I argue that there is an underacknowledged …

Reflecting on a methodological experiment, we discuss the use of computational techniques
in anthropology. The experiment was based on a collaborative effort by a team of …

Statisticians are under pressure to innovate, partly due to shrinking budgets and the call to
do more with less, but also due to technological advances and the emergence of new actors …

What does it mean to produce trustworthy code for computer scientists? Based primarily on
ethnographic fieldwork in an undergraduate computer science program in Singapore, this …

This article focuses on data workers in Shenzhen, who, since 2013, have been recruited to
fill positions in the city's Weaving the Net program (zhiwang gongcheng, 織網工程). The …

Die Datenwissenschaften beschäftigen sich mit der Analyse großer, komplexer
Datenmengen und erregen damit im Kontext der Digitalisierung hohe mediale und …